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L. D. NESSLER.

HAIRPIN EXHIBITOR. No. 460,445. Patented Sept. 29, 1891.

WITNESSES. /NVENTO/? A TTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS D. NESSLER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-PIN EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,445, dated September 29, 1891.

' Application filed April 16, 1891. Serial No. 389,141. (No model.)

To all ZU/LODL it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS D. N ESSLER, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Hair-Pin Exhibitor, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in hair-pin exhibitors, and especially to that class of exhibitors which are used in displaying fancy hairpins. These pins have usually been held in cushions, and a great difiiculty in this way of exhibiting them is that the cushions are soon destroyed and the prongs of the pins are very likely to be doubled over. The object of my invention is to obviate this difliculty by producing a simple form of exhibitor in which the pins may be easily inserted without injury, and also to produce an exhibitor which will display the goods to m uch better advantage than the common form of cushion.

To this end my invention consists in a hairpin exhibitor constructed substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the'accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the invention, and Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same on the line 2 2 in Fig. l.

The exhibitor comprises a box 10, which forms the frame of the device, and it maybe of any desired shape, a rectangular shape, as shown, being preferable, and the box is provided with a removable cover 11 and an inclined bottom 12, the bottom having one edge extending to a point level with the lower side of the box and having its opposite edge elevated so as to extend centrally along one side of the box. The upper edge of the bottom 12 is held upon a ledge 13, as shown in the drawings, although it may be secured to the side of the box in any suitable way.

Extending horizon tally through the central portion of the box is a coarse netting 14, and extending across the top of the box is a similar netting 14, which is held between the cover and the top edge of the box, and may be secured to either, if desired. 14 and 14 should be coarse enough, so that the prongs of the hair-pins 15 will drop easily through them, and it will be seen that the two nettings will bear against the hair-pins at different points, so as to maintain them in a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 2.

The hair-pin may be arranged as desired in the box, and it will be seen that by arranging them in rows, if the pins are of an equal length, they will be displayed at dilferent heights, so that they will show to good advantage, and if there is a great disparity in the lengths of the pins the longer ones may be arranged so that their points will strike the lower portion of the inclined bottom and the shorter ones may be arranged higher up on the bottom.

In practice the boxis generally upholstered, so that it will present an attractive appearance, and it is obvious that more than two nettings may be used where it is necessary to use a greater number.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a pin-exhibitor consisting in the box 10, open at its top and having a bottom 12 inclined from the rear side of the box downward to its front side, an open frame 11, resting upon the upper edge of the box, a strip of netting 14 crossing the top of the box, with its margin between the upper edge of the box and the lower side of the frame 11, and the second strip of netting between the strip 149 and the inclined bottom, substantially as set forth.

' LOUIS D. NESSLER.

Witnesses:

WARREN B. H UTCHINSON, O. SEDGWICK.

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